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We use an entropy based method to study two graph maximization problems. We upper bound the number of matchings of fixed size $\ell$ in a $d$-regular graph on $N$ vertices. For $\frac{2\ell}{N}$ bounded away from 0 and 1, the logarithm of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-06-15 Teena Carroll , David Galvin , Prasad Tetali

A graph is called $k$-critical if its chromatic number is $k$ but any proper subgraph has chromatic number less than $k$. An old and important problem in graph theory asks to determine the maximum number of edges in an $n$-vertex…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-01-05 Cong Luo , Jie Ma , Tianchi Yang

The study of domination in graphs has led to a variety of domination problems studied in the literature. Most of these follow the following general framework: Given a graph $G$ and an integer $k$, decide if there is a set $S$ of $k$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Marvin Künnemann , Mirza Redzic

The study of graph vertex colorability from an algebraic perspective has introduced novel techniques and algorithms into the field. For instance, it is known that $k$-colorability of a graph $G$ is equivalent to the condition $1 \in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-09-24 Christopher J. Hillar , Troels Windfeldt

We consider the problem of exact and inexact matching of weighted undirected graphs, in which a bijective correspondence is sought to minimize a quadratic weight disagreement. This computationally challenging problem is often relaxed as a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-10-14 Yonathan Aflalo , Alex Bronstein , Ron Kimmel

Let $G=(V, E)$ be a graph where $V$ and $E$ are the vertex and edge set, respectively. For two disjoint subsets $A$ and $B$, we say $A$ dominates $B$ if every vertex of $B$ is adjacent to at least one vertex of $A$. A vertex partition $\pi…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Subhabrata Paul , Kamal Santra

An induced matching in a graph is a set of edges whose endpoints induce a $1$-regular subgraph. Gupta et al. (2012,\cite{Gupta}) showed that every $n$-vertex graph has at most $10^{\frac{n}{5}}\approx 1.5849^n$ maximal induced matchings,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-16 Bo-Jun Yuan , Zhao-Yu Yang , Lu Zheng , Shi-Cai Gong

We relate the graph isomorphism problem to the solvability of certain systems of linear equations with nonnegative variables. This version replaces the two previous versions of this paper.

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2008-01-10 Shmuel Friedland

We present a new sufficient condition on stability number and toughness of the graph to have an f-factor.

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2010-11-03 Kouider Mekkia

A square (0,1)-matrix X of order n > 0 is called fully indecomposable if there exists no integer k with 0 < k < n, such that X has a k by n-k zero submatrix. A stable set of a graph G is a subset of pairwise nonadjacent vertices. The…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Vadim E. Levit , Eugen Mandrescu

We investigate the terminal-pairibility problem in the case when the base graph is a complete bipartite graph, and the demand graph is also bipartite with the same color classes. We improve the lower bound on maximum value of $\Delta(D)$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-04-22 Lucas Colucci , Péter L. Erdős , Ervin Győri , Tamás Róbert Mezei

The classical Zarankiewicz problem, which concerns the maximum number of edges in a bipartite graph without a forbidden complete bipartite subgraph, motivates a direct analogue for hypergraphs. Let $K_{s_1,\ldots, s_r}$ be the complete…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-17 Guorong Gao , Jianfeng Hou , Shuping Huang , Hezhi Wang

Given an undirected graph, are there $k$ matchings whose union covers all of its nodes, that is, a matching-$k$-cover? A first, easy polynomial solution from matroid union is possible, as already observed by Wang, Song and Yuan…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-02-05 Dehia Ait Ferhat , Zoltán Király , András Sebő , Gautier Stauffer

Erd\H{o}s proved an upper bound on the number of edges in an $n$-vertex non-Hamiltonian graph with given minimum degree and showed sharpness via two members of a particular graph family. F\"{u}redi, Kostochka and Luo showed that these two…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-03 Zhanar Berikkyzy , Kirsten Hogenson , Rachel Kirsch , Jessica McDonald

Let $x,y\in(0,1]$ and let $A,B,C$ be disjoint nonempty subsets of a graph $G$, where every vertex in $A$ has at least $x|B|$ neighbours in $B$, and every vertex in $B$ has at least $y|C|$ neighbours in $C$. We denote by $\phi(x,y)$ the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-12-08 Maria Chudnovsky , Patrick Hompe , Alex Scott , Paul Seymour , Sophie Spirkl

Let $G$ be a bipartite graph with bipartition $(X,Y)$. Inspired by a hypergraph problem, we seek an upper bound on the number of disjoint paths needed to cover all the vertices of $X$. We conjecture that a Hall-type sufficient condition…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-10-10 Mikhail Lavrov , Jennifer Vandenbussche

The paper focuses on two problems: (i) how to orient the edges of an undirected graph in order to maximize the number of ordered vertex pairs (x,y) such that there is a directed path from x to y, and (ii) how to orient the edges so as to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-06-02 S. L. Hakimi , E. Schmeichel , Neal E. Young

We give an upper bound on the number of perfect matchings in an undirected simple graph $G$ with an even number of vertices, in terms of the degrees of all the vertices in $G$. This bound is sharp if $G$ is a union of complete bipartite…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-03-07 Shmuel Friedland

The problem of graphical model selection is to correctly estimate the graph structure of a Markov random field given samples from the underlying distribution. We analyze the information-theoretic limitations of the problem of graph…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-05-19 Narayana Santhanam , Martin J. Wainwright

A graph $ G $ is said to be $ (H;k) $-vertex stable if $ G $ contains a~subgraph isomorphic to $ H $ even after removing any $ k $ of its vertices alongside with their incident edges. We will denote by $ \text{stab}(H;k) $ the minimum size…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-06-16 Artur Kuźnar